Cold Dream by reheated

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made by reheated for LD 44 (COMPO)

A survival solitaire card game. You've been exiled to a decommissioned science station on Makemake and left to die. Every turn, a new crisis arises and you have a handful of cards with different effects that you can use to try and keep all your vital stats above zero.

I haven't had the chance to take part in Ludum Dare for a long time, and it really showed. I was a lot slower at pretty much every stage of the process. Well, I'm still delighted that I managed to finish something - it was touch and go for a while.

Please note that Edge is not currently supported. Maybe the game runs, but it looks all wonky! Perhaps try the game in Firefox or Chrome.

Software: VS Code, Inkscape, Krita, FL Studio + EWQLSO, Firefox, Chrome, Windows. Code base: extracted some bits from one of my previous entries. cd_screenshot.png

Ratings

Given 11🗳️ 10🗨️

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EvoGenGames
29. Apr 2019 · 09:57 UTC
Wow, It's not easy too make a fully fletched card game in such a short amount of time.

This is really nice though! Congratulations!
gelisam
29. Apr 2019 · 23:29 UTC
This was great! 5/5 on mood: I was worrying about my food resources, then I was so relieved when I accidentally got infinity scrap metal and I realized that by achieving that with my vital resources, I might be able to survive in the long term after all. Later, I laughed when I saw that some cards cost infinity as well :)

I wish there were more chapters: the same story, but divided into smaller chunks, so we get a chance to learn more about our supporters and our past transgressions.

The only negative thing was the interactions in the last chapter: I already had infinity of all the regular resources when I began the last chapter, so it was only a question of finding the right cards and then I immediately got infinity of the new resources as well. I think it would have been a nice opportunity to use ordinal numbers or cardinal numbers, so you'd have to spend 16 x infinity of one resource to get infinity to the power of infinity of some other resource or something.
Bitron
01. May 2019 · 17:02 UTC
this is something I see myself loosing hours in. good job, especially considering you worked on that alone!
Minemes
02. May 2019 · 14:16 UTC
Wow coo and clean idea.
cheesepencil
02. May 2019 · 14:17 UTC
This kinda reminds me FTL but without the space combat, like you know when you visit a space station or a derelict vessel and have the option to board or fight the spiders infesting it? I love these kinds of games, this one kept me busy for a little while. good job
MaggardJosh
04. May 2019 · 03:51 UTC
I really got lost in that game, loved the strategy and could have played it for hours. I made a silly mistake in chapter 3 and ended up dying :sob:

The cards you get seem to be very well thought out and balanced so good work on that! This will be one of the few LD games I come back to try to beat later. Well done!
elmo
04. May 2019 · 13:14 UTC
Great game, i played it for an hour.